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  November 13, 2023

  Attract and Retain Teachers With a Strategic Compensation Model

  All students deserve teachers who have the support, energy, and time to meet their individual learning needs. But many district leaders across the country are facing challenging... More »

  Publications Compensation Teaching
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  September 19, 2023

  Hybrid Learning Models That Actually Work

  How-to Guide for Implementing Hybrid Learning Models While our vision paper illustrates what hybrid learning models could do for districts, our guide provides comprehensive guidance... More »

  District Leaders School Design Standards & Instructional Resources Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Elementary Instructional Planning Guide

    All students deserve the time and space to learn across all content areas—but not every schedule affords students the same opportunities. A school’s schedule reflects a school’s... More »

  District Leaders School Leaders School Design Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  How to Spend ESSER Funds Strategically for K-12 Transformation

  Actionable tools and resources to help district leaders invest ESSER funds with a "Do Now, Build Toward" approach for sustainable transformation. More »

  COVID-19 Equity District Leaders State Leaders Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Reimagining the Teaching Job

  An illustration of what the teacher experience looks like now for many teachers, and what it could look like instead by making teaching a more dynamic, rewarding, collaborative, and... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders State Leaders Teaching Leadership Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  How School District Leaders Can Support Teachers and Drive Change

  This page highlights out-of-the-box strategies and investments make it possible for leaders to redesign the teaching profession. More »

  Publications Tools Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching Learn
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Resources to Help School Leaders Improve the Teaching Job

  Resources to Get Started in Your District   NEW RESOURCE: HOW TO SUPPORT PRINCIPALS  When principals get effective support from their central office, they’re more likely to... More »

  Publications Tools Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders Teaching Learn
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  Education Resource Strategies

  The Vision: Reimagining the Teaching Job

  How we can lift students and educators by making teaching a more dynamic, rewarding, collaborative, and sustainable profession More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design State Leaders Teaching Toolkits
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  July 06, 2022

  10 Steps to Become an Equity Detective

  Learn how to become an “equity detective”: a leader who actively looks for and takes action to address structural and systemic inequities in schools and school systems. More »

  Board Members Publications Equity District Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Take Action
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  June 01, 2022

  It's Time for an ESSER Halftime Review

  We’re halfway through ESSER’s funding timeline, but leaders still have time to create lasting change. This ESSER Halftime Review Guide will help help facilitate productive conversations,... More »

  Publications Tools COVID-19 District Leaders Learn Toolkits
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  Spring 2022

  ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling

  The ESSER Guidance for School Staffing, Spending, and Scheduling guides provide a blueprint for organizing resources for a sustainable ESSER investment strategy—one that has an immediate... More »

  Publications Tools District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Leadership School Support & Accountability Community Engagement Toolkits
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  December 16, 2021

  ERS Top FIVE Resources from 2021

  Here are our top 5 resources from 2021 — and real-life examples from districts and schools around the country. More »

  Presentations Publications COVID-19 District Leaders School Leaders School Design State Leaders Toolkits
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  May 2021

  COVID-19 Reopening and Recovery: Toolkit for Districts and Schools

  From equitably meeting students' increased needs, to planning new budgets, to creating safe and effective models for hybrid and fully-remote learning — the options facing districts and... More »

  Equity District Leaders COVID-19 School Leaders State Leaders Leadership School Support & Accountability Community Engagement Toolkits
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  School Leaders as Equity Leaders

  Tools to help principals create resource equity in their school buildings. More »

  Equity District Leaders School Leaders Toolkits
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  Three Steps to a Strategic Schedule

  We’ve created a set of COVID Comeback Models that include possible student groups, schedules, staff roles and more for district and school leaders planning for a safe shift to hybrid... More »

  District Leaders School Leaders School Design Toolkits
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  Toolkit: Advice for New Superintendents

  As a new superintendent - whether it's your first time in that role or just new to a community- you'll face a tremendous number of challenges. The key is knowing where to begin. More »

  District Leaders Leadership Toolkits
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  Toolkit: New Teacher Support

  All school and district leaders want to grow their new teachers into effective educators who stay at their schools - yet most feel constrained by limited budgets. But it is possible to... More »

  District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching Toolkits
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  January 2019

  Transforming School Funding: A Guide to Implementing Student-Based Budgeting

  Student-Based Budgeting (SBB) allocates dollars based on enrollment and student need. In this blog, you will find tools and key elements for decision making as you consider SBB for your... More »

  District Leaders Equity Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting
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  August 2018

  Weighted Student Funding

  Weighted Student Funding has become a popular initiative for district leaders who seek to allocate scarce resources to schools, especially in the face of stubborn achievement gaps,... More »

  Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Toolkit: What is Student-Based Budgeting? How can it drive student learning?

  SBB is a funding system whereby dollars follow students based on student need, and can help increase funding transparency, equity, and flexibility. More »

  Equity District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting Toolkits
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  June 2018

  Low Teacher Salaries 101

  In 40 states, the real value of teacher salaries declined from 2010 to 2015. How we got here, why it matters, and how we can pay teachers fairly and strategically. More »

  Compensation District Leaders State Leaders
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  May 2017

  It Takes a System: A Case Study of Denver Public Schools (DPS)

  Over the last decade, Denver Public Schools (DPS) became one of the fastest-improving large districts in the country—achieving significant improvement across all student subgroups. Unlike... More »

  Publications Special Education Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning School Leaders School Design Teaching Leadership School Support & Accountability Turnaround
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  April 2017

  Toolkit: Connected Professional Learning for Teachers

  We studied 4 school systems that redesigned their approach to PL and have seen inspiring student growth. Their models are highly "connected" to what teachers do every day. More »

  Professional Learning Teaching Toolkits
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  Education Resource Strategies

  Teacher Compensation Calculator

  Explore your options for designing a more effective teacher compensation system within your existing district budget. More »

  Tools Compensation District Leaders Teaching
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  May 2015

  Following the Dollars to the Classroom Door

  More and more districts—and several states—are adopting funding models like student-based budgeting (also called weighted student funding or fair student funding) to increase equity... More »

  Publications District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting School Leaders School Design
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  February 2015

  Six Opportunities to Restructure Education Resources in Georgia

  From 2012 to 2013, ERS partnered with the Georgia Department of Education to address how the state and a few districts manage their resources. These reports highlight three opportunities... More »

  Presentations Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting State Leaders States
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  February 2015

  Do More, Add More, Earn More

  Effective teachers are the biggest in-school factor related to student success. Across the country, a diverse set of districts are pioneering innovative approaches to teacher compensation... More »

  Publications Compensation District Leaders Professional Learning Teaching
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  August 2015

  Data Decisions Brief #3: Investing in Teachers in the Age of Common Core

  Learn how districts can target resources to better support teachers through job-embedded professional growth More »

  Publications Compensation District Leaders
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  April 15, 2014

  Student-Based Budgeting Webinar

  The following is a video recording of our April 3 webinar on student-based budgeting, based off our recent publication, "Transforming School Funding: A Guide to Implementing Student-Based... More »

  Presentations District Leaders Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting
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  July 2013

  First Steps

  Part of a series of ERS publications on teacher compensation, this paper explores four steps districts can take now for sustained impact on teacher effectiveness. More »

  Publications Compensation Professional Learning Teaching